Music at Arlington Street Church
Music Staff
• Mark David Buckles • Director of Music
• Molly Wood • Collaborative Pianist
• Glorivy Arroyo • Mezzo-Soprano
• Rachel Gitner • Soprano
• David Wilson • Tenor
• Jonathan Grey Price • Tenor
• J. Jacob Krause • Baritone, Assistant Conductor
Mark David Buckles • Director of Music • mbuckles@ascboston.org
Mark David Buckles, conductor, composer, music educator, and multi-instrumentalist, is a native of Beverly Hills, Michigan. Mark received his Masters of Music in Conducting at the Boston University College of Fine Arts and his Bachelors of Music in Composition from the University of Michigan School of Music.
Mark serves as Adjunct Professor of Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and as Music Director Emeritus of Juventas, the acclaimed Boston-based New Music Ensemble dedicated to performing the works of young composers, which he co-founded in 2005.
In 2003 and 2005, Mark participated in the European American Music Alliance in Paris, where he received honors for his studies in counterpoint and harmony. Mark is also a 2006 graduate of the Conductors’ Institute at Bard College.
A prolific composer and arranger of choral, vocal, and instrumental music, Mark has received commissions from the University of Michigan Women’s Glee Club, the University of Michigan Honors Convocation, Miller College, and Dixboro United Methodist Church. His works have been performed and recorded by the University of Michigan Chamber Choir, the Boston Choral Ensemble, the Boston University Concert Chorus, the Saint Petersburg String Quartet, and various other ensembles.
Molly Wood • Collaborative Pianist • office@ascboston.org
Molly Wood is a free-lance collaborative pianist who performs regularly with vocalists, instrumentalists, chamber groups, and dancers in the New England area. A frequent performer of new music, she served as rehearsal coach and performance pianist for four years for OperaHub and Guerilla Opera, groups dedicated to performing new and accessible opera works. In the spring of 2008 she cofounded zradci, a new music ensemble dedicated to giving unique musical performances and experiences. Along with her active performance schedule, she works as a staff pianist at Boston University, plays at the Boston Ballet School, accompanies the Merrimack Concert Association’s chorus, teaches at the Nashua Community Music School, and accompanies the choir and services at Arlington Street Church on piano and organ.
During the fall of 2009, Molly participated in the Oxford Lieder Mastercourse held in Oxford, England. This week-long course, designed and led by pianist Sholto Kyochand featuring soprano Sarah Walker, combined daily masterclasses and live performances. She and her partner, soprano Rebekah Alexander, worked together towards a final concert at the hall, and received a positive review about their “intelligent musicianship” in the Oxford University magazine.
During the summer of 2008 she served as Staff Pianist to the instrumental workshops and vocal program of the internationally-acclaimed high school training festival Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI). Her festival participation includes staff pianist work during the summer of 2007 for the flute and clarinet workshops at BUTI, vocal coaching for the Richard Crittenden Vocal Workshop in Boston, and pianist at SongFest, an art song program for singers and collaborative pianists, held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
Molly earned her Master of Music degree in collaborative piano from Boston University as a student of Shiela Kibbe. While there she played keyboards in the Boston University Wind Ensemble and the Time’s Arrow New Music Ensemble, and collaborated with student composers in premiers of chamber works. Molly holds a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Molly’s teachers include Shiela Kibbe, Robert Merfeld, Kate Boyd, Andrew Russo, Panayis Lyras, and Sarah Gierzynski. Recently she has participated in masterclasses with Malcolm Martineau, Roger Vignoles, and Eugene Asti; she has coached with vocalists under the direction of Martin Katz, Rudolf Jansen, and Marvin Hamlisch as well as worked with composers John Harbison, Jake Heggie, and Ricky Ian Gordon.
Glorivy Arroyo • Mezzo-Soprano • office@ascboston.org
Ms. Arroyo is a frequent performer with Opera Boston, most recently performing the role of Dinah in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. Recent engagements include her title role debut as Angelina in La cenerentola with Opera del West; Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor with Commonwealth Opera; the role of Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas with Metrowest Opera; a critically acclaimed tour of Rossini in concert, as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia; and with Opera Boston: Anna in Kurt Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, and Roggiero, opposite the esteemed Eva Podles, in Tancredi. After her successful performances in Die Zauberflöte and Roméo et Juliette with Opera New Jersey, she was asked to sing the role of Ruth in their touring production of The Pirates of Penzance during their 2007-2008 season. With Utah Opera, she debuted The Grapes of Wrath selections in concert and sang the role of Lolette in La Rondine with Metropolitan Opera director Michael Scarola, under the baton of Keith Lockhart. In 2007, Ms. Arroyo joined the Grammy-winning cast of Golijov's Ainadamar under the direction of Peter Sellars. Oratorio credits include works by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, and Haydn with Commonwealth Opera, Harvard Pro Musica and Mystic River Chorale. Upcoming performances include the role of Francisca in Maria Padilla with Opera Boston and Mozart’s Requiem with Harvard Pro Musica. Ms. Arroyo can be heard on BMOP’s world premiere recording of Foss’ Griffelkin, released on the Chandos label.
Rachel Gitner • Soprano • office@ascboston.org
Soprano Rachel Gitner is quickly becoming a sought-after interpreter
of dramatic music. She developed a “unique and pleasing sound”
through her studies at the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins
University and the University of Oregon. Recent engagements include a
solo recital at Weill Concert Hall at Carnegie Hall as part of La
Gesse Foundation Festival, and Bach's Saint John Passion with the
Peabody Early Music Department. She performed the role of Clara in a
new opera, commissioned for her by composer Jeff Zeiders. Since
graduating from Peabody last May, she has enjoyed being the soprano
soloist at the Arlington Street Church in Boston. She also cultivates
a private voice studio. Her students inspire her daily to become a
better singer-teacher.
David Wilson • Tenor • office@ascboston.org
Profile and pic to come.
J. Jacob Krause • Baritone, Assistant Conductor • office@ascboston.org
J. Jacob Krause, stage director, singer, and theatrical designer, hails from Detroit, Michigan where he began his study of music and theater from a young age. He received his Bachelors Degree in Voice Performance from the University of Michigan where he not only studied the art and techniques of singing but the dramatic and directorial techniques of the art form. These skills coupled with his instrumental skills, primarily in Piano and Trumpet led him to pursue Stage Direction.
Jacob has studied opera in Florence and Israel and has done Schubert Art Song Tours through the Rhein River Valley of Germany. He has performed with the Michigan Opera Theater, New England Light Opera, Marsh Chapel Chorus, Boston Gay Men’s Chorus, The Vox Consort and OperaHub.
In addition to his performance credits, Jacob has also founded OperaHub, an opera company devoted to creating accessible opera for all where he has staged three successful productions (Idomeneo, Anything Goes: A cabaret, Changing Modes: An Opera Fashion Show). He has recently taken the role of Artistic Director of Juventas, acclaimed Boston-based New Music Ensemble dedicated to performing the works of young composers, where he spearheads their opera program. With Juventas, Jacob has staged three world premiere operas and continually pushes the envelope for innovative stagings in new opera as well as new music concerts.
Jonathan Grey Price • Tenor • office@ascboston.org
A Masters of Music candidate at Boston Conservatory, and a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), Jonathan Grey Price has been performing for most of his life. At the Boston Conservatory, Jonathan is excited to perform the role of Eddie Pensier in John Davies' new opera The Bremen Town Musicians, and the partial roles of Benedict in Berlioz's Beatrice et Benedict and Albert in Britten's Albert Herring this spring. Before coming to Boston Conservatory, Jonathan sang the role of Rapunzal's Prince in Crossroads Theatre Company's production of Into the Woods, a production that he also directed. While attending CCM, Jonathan played the Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and the Armored Guard in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Jonathan is excited to be touring Germany this summer as a resident artist with the International Performing Arts Institute in Munich and Kiefersfelden.
Updated April, 2011